Hi Chris, Quim, Thank you for directing me towards Vagrant VM! I will try it out and let you know how it goes.Will also start focusing towards VE+ULS!
Thanks, Renuka On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send QA mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of QA digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: QA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 4 (Testing environment) > (Chris McMahon) > 2. heuristic for testing VisualEditor with ULS and Selenium > (Chris McMahon) > 3. Weekend Testing Sept 7(?) (Chris McMahon) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:02:18 -0700 > From: Chris McMahon <[email protected]> > To: "QA (software quality assurance) for Wikimedia projects." > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [QA] QA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 4 (Testing environment) > Message-ID: > < > cajohbhsutuczu62qqxpu0ahqoageydi4jglhhbvqay-7nmc...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Renuka Alurkar <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi Chris, > > > > I have one more question. If I want to run ULS automated tests on my > > laptop, what should the environment be?What should be installed? > > > > As Quim noted earlier, Vagrant is a Virtual Machine set up for this. > > We've written these down a couple of times: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-06-27 > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Meetings/2013-07-18 (note that the Vagrant > info here is out of date) > > tl;dr: you can't go too wrong with a Vagrant VM. if you're not on > Windows, RVM is the way to go. If you are on Windows, the one-click > installer is the best option. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/attachments/20130905/909f34f5/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:23:20 -0700 > From: Chris McMahon <[email protected]> > To: "Software quality assurance for Wikimedia projects." > <[email protected]> > Subject: [QA] heuristic for testing VisualEditor with ULS and Selenium > Message-ID: > <CAJohBHQmiUqXr5A27XsEbPnjD+-zL= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > When you click 'Edit' on a wiki page in Firefox or Chrome to invoke > VisualEditor, the editable area is called "CE" for contentEditable. After > you make changes, the diff you can see before the final save is called "DM" > for "data model". > > It is vitally important that the data held in CE and DM always be identical > for any edit. If CE and DM do not agree, then saving the edit corrupts the > data on the page. For example, with the help of an automated test I was > able to demonstrate a race condition causing exactly this problem not long > ago, which resulted in an emergency fix release: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53360 > > This week Rachel was working on an automated VE test and hit a problem > because of how Selenium and Firefox interpret the difference between > "enter" and "return" commands: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53721. In this case we > were > unable to reproduce the error manually, but it makes me suspect that there > may be some hardware or software somewhere such that creating a newline > while using VisualEditor to edit CE will cause DM to not recognize the > changed page contents. > > One of the things that ULS makes possible is a choice of "input methods". > The more we can have people checking the results of various input methods > (hardware and software) in VisualEditor the happier we will be. Rachel's > experience shows that a newline from an exotic input source *might* be a > cause of data corruption in VE, but we have to demonstrate the problem > reliably by a manual operation in order to address it. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/attachments/20130905/55f5c595/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 16:01:35 -0700 > From: Chris McMahon <[email protected]> > To: "Software quality assurance for Wikimedia projects." > <[email protected]> > Subject: [QA] Weekend Testing Sept 7(?) > Message-ID: > <CAJohBHTwjnm9GK=tZ-FR=Rf2AsvTDtioVDOHSMKTnM7C= > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > To the best of my knowledge, the Weekend Testing folks will be using Visual > Editor to update real articles in Wikipedia this Saturday. I left a > message on the Talk page here in preparation: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Software_testing#Weekend_Testers_America_to_edit_on_this_subject_7_September_2013 > and > I left a notice at the Teahouse also: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Teahouse/Questions&oldid=571708956 > > I believe that I will be able to attend WTA on Saturday, but I'm doing so > as a civilian, not in my WMF staff persona. :-) > > -Chris > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/qa/attachments/20130905/4c9d3b10/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > QA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/qa > > > End of QA Digest, Vol 5, Issue 6 > ******************************** >
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